UNU/UNITAR SERIES ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE

Session II: Sustainable Development Education --

Challenges and Opportunities in the National Planning Process

New York, 15 April 1998

Programme

The Issues Behind Reorienting Education to Address Sustainable Development

10.00 - 10.15 a.m. UNU/UNITAR introduction to the Series, Ms. Nassrine Azimi and Mr.Jaques Fomerand.

10.15 - 10.30 a.m. Briefing on the Sixth Session of CSD and progress-report on Chapter 36 of Agenda 21. Ms. Hiroko Morita-Lou (?), DESA

10.30 - 10.50 a.m. An educator's perspective. Mr. Charles A. Hopkins

10.50 - 11.15 a.m. Discussions

11.15 - 11.30 a.m. Coffee Break

11.30 a.m. - 12.15p.m.Selected case studies: Innovation in approaching the issues, synthesis, analysis and impact on policy making. Mr.Trevor Harvey, Northern Co-Chair to CSD NGO Caucus on Education

12.15 - 1.00 p.m. Discussion and summary

1.00 - 2.30 p.m. Lunch Break

2.30 - 3.00 p.m. Presentation on innovative tools, i.e. internet/audio-visual media which can be used by governments and educationalists to expand the outreach (IBM Programs for expansion of classrooms using technology)

3.00 - 4.30 p.m. Panel discussions (representative from a capital, academia, the CSD Bureau, major international non-governmental organization i.e. IUCN/Earth Council etc., and Mr. Trevor Harvey)

4.30 - 4.45 p.m. Coffee Break

4.45 - 5.45 p.m. Seminar conclusions by rapporteurs/ Summary by facilitator (Ms. Barbra Adams)

5.45 - 6.00 p.m. Evaluation